Detachable fastener for garments and the like



,May 30, 1939. M G. COQK 2,160,492

DETACHABLE FASTENER FOR GARMENTS AND THE LIKE Filed July 18, 1958 INV EN TOR.

V I V figgidlf a G. Cools;

- ATTORNEYS.

Patented May 30, 1939 PATENT oFFmE DETACHABLE FASTENER FOR GARMIENTS AND THE LIKE Mildred G. Cook,

Big Rapids, Mich.

Application July 18, 1938, Serial No. 219,707

Claims.

The present invention relates to fastening devices; and its object is to provide an improved device for releasably fastening articles together, as portions of a garment or the like, which device may be readily applied to such articles and shall be easy to operate and very effective in holding said articlesor garment portions in their proper relative positions.

This and any other and more specific objects invention finds preferable embodiment in, the illustrative fastening device particularly described in the body of this specification and illustrated by the accompany drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a front view of a garment with my fastening devices indicated as applied thereto;

Figure 2 is a sectional view of one of the devices and of the garment, taken on a plane corresponding to the horizontal line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a side View of said device and a sec tional view of the garment taken on a plane corresponding to the diagonal line 3-3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a View in perspective of either one of the two main members of the device;

Figure 5 is a view in perspective of means for mounting either of said members on the garment;

Figure 6 is a view in perspective of an end portion of the same showing a slightly modified construction thereof;

Figure '7 is a longitudinal central sectional view of said means taken on a plane corresponding to the horizontal line 1-1 of Figure 1 and showing another slightly modified construction of said means.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated by the drawing, my device for releasably fastening or connecting articles together, as sheets of 40 fabric or the like, comprises a pair of cooperating main members I, 2 adapted to be applied to, or mounted on, such sheets, as the meeting portions or flaps 3, 4 respectively of the garment shown in Figure 1, and to be mutually engaged for fastening said portions together and disengaged for releasing the same.

, These members I, 2 are desirably and as shown identical in form, material and function. One of these members, and preferably as shown each of them, has resilient parts yieldingly engaging the other member for releasably holding them in operative position. Preferably therefore, each of said members is a block of resilient material, as rubber, Celluloid or the like. These members are halved each having in its outer side 5 a transhereinafter appearing are attained by, and the verse keeper socket '1 extending between its opposite lateral sides 8 at a predetermined angle thereto (in the illustrated example, a right angle) this socket closely receiving the correspondingly' cross-sectionally reduced middle or neck portion ii of the other member. Each member has also in each of its lateral sides 8 an elongated keeper socket 9 having opposite ends Ill. The opposite sides of the socket l of each member overhang, having inclined mutually converging portions H bowed outwardly, i. e., toward each other.

This pair of members, disposed at said predetermined angle to each other, are pressed together into their mutual engaging and operative position shown in Figures 2 and 3. In this movement to their said position, the bowed side portions H of the socket l of each member slide over the portions l2 of the sides 8 of the other member, these slidingly engaging parts resiliently yielding relatively to each other sulficiently to permit said movement, and when the bottom l3 of the socket 1 of each member reaches the bottom of the like socket 1 of the other member, the bowed portions ll of the socket i of each member spring back relatively to the sides 8 of the other member and into yieldingly interlocking engagement in the sockets 9 of said other member, the fiat opposite ends M of the bowed portions H of each member engaging the ends ll of the sockets 9 of the other member and the fiat, portions l5 of the sides of the socket l of each member. engaging the portions l2 and E6 of both sides 8 of the other member.

The reverse relative movement of these members l, 2 disengages the same, yieldingly pressing their cooperating parts out of their holding engagement with each other; wherefore it will be seen that this separating movement of said members is resisted so yieldingly that these members are not torn loose from the garments portions on which they are mounted as they might be if the members separating movement were of a non-yielding character.

It will also be seen that, inasmuch as said members extend at a predetermined angle to each other, the various corresponding mutuallyengaging or interlocking parts of these members as above described are such that said members are held comparatively positively and unyieldingly against relative turning movement parallel with each other as about an axis indicated by the broken line l8 in Figures 2 and 3, so that the fastened Sheets,'as the garments portions 3, 4 are retained against such relatively turning movement which would tend to wrinkle or disorder the same.

When, as is stated to be preferable, both members l, 2 are made of like resilient material, the corresponding parts of both yield in the movement of said members to and from operative engagement, each member thus yielding to a less degree than would the single resilient member of a pair in which the other member is nonresilient.

Cavities !9 extending through each of said members parallelly with the bowed portions ll and shaped correspondingly thereto, may be formed for increasing the compressibility thereof when such members are made of material, as Celluloid, which is not so resilient as rubber. Each of these members may be mounted on a sheet of material, as the flap 3 or 4, by any suitable means or in any suitable manner. Preferably such means is releasable, and as shown comprises a bail or rod 20 having a flat middle portion 2| and angularly turned resilient portions 22 terminating in hooked ends 23 which may be thrust through the sheet. This bar being pressed toward the inner side 6 of said member, its ends 23 riding on the ends 25 thereof are thereby sprung apart until, reaching the pits 24 therein, they spring thereinto thus clamping the sheet or garments flap between the middle portion 2| of the bail and the inner side of said member.

The device is, for the sake of clearness of illustration, much enlarged in the drawing above its actual size for the use shown, wherefore the ends 23 of the slender bail 20 may be readily thrust through the sheet material of the intended garment (such as is shown in Figure 1) and without damaging the same; but where necessary or desirable the ends 23 of the bail may be pointed as seen in Figure 6 for ready insertion.

In the slightly modified construction of this bail shown in Figure 7, a strengthening portion 26, which may be made an ornamental feature, is welded thereon as indicated at 21.

The pits 24 may be open to one side 8 of each of said members so that the ends of a rigid bail may be slid thereinto.

The invention being intended to be pointed out in the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction and arrangement of any particular embodiment thereof illustrated by the drawing or hereinbefore shown or described.

I claim:

1. A device of the class described for connecting articles detachably comprising a pair of cooperating resilient members adapted to be mounted at their inner sides on the articles respectively, each member having a cross-sectionally reduced medial portion and a transversely extending socket in its outer side, said socket of each member receiving said portion of the other member in the operative connected position of the members, each member having also a socket in each of its opposite other sides and a pair of spaced resilient converging portions, said spaced portions of each member adapted to be spring pressed intoyieldingly interlocking engagement in the last mentioned sockets respectively of the other member for yieldingly holding the connected members against separating movement.

2. A device of the class described for connecting articles. detachably comprising a pair of cooperating members adapted to be mounted at their inner sides on the articles respectively and being substantially identical in form and at least one of them made of resilient material, each member having a cross-sectionally reduced medial portion and a transversely extending socket in its outer side with converging side portions, said socket of each member receiving said medial portion of the other member in the operative connected position of the members, each member having also a socket in each of its opposite other sides, said converging side portions of each member engaging interlockingly in the last mentioned sockets respectively of the other member for yieldingly holding the connected members against separating movement.

3. A device of the class described for connecting articles detachably comprising a pair of cooperating members adapted to be mounted at their inner sides on the articles respectively and being substantially identical and made of resilient material, each member having a cross-sectionally reduced medial portion and a transversely ex tending socket in its outer side with convergingly bowed side portions, said socket of each member receiving said medial portion of the other member in the operative connected position of the members, each member having also a socket in each of its opposite other sides, said converging side portions of each member engaging interlockingly in the last mentioned sockets respectively of the other member for yieldingly holding the connected members against separating movement.

4. A device of the class described for connecting articles detachably comprising a pair of copperating members adapted to be mounted at their inner sides on the articles respectively and being substantially identical and made of resilient material, each member having a cross-sectionally reduced medial portion and a transversely eX-' tending socket in its outer side with convergingly bowed side portions, said socket of each member receiving said medial portion of the other member in the operative connected position of the members, each member having also a socket in each of its opposite other sides, said converging side portions of each member engaging interlockingly in the last mentioned sockets respectively of the other member for yieldingly holding the connected members against separating movement, said bowed portions having correspondingly shaped and parallelly extending cavities for increasing their compressibility.

5. A device of the class described for fastening portions of garments and the like together detachably comprising a pair of cooperating elongated resilient members halved for receiving each other in their operative position, and means for releasably connecting the same in said position and having sockets in their ends, and means for ingly held in the sockets respectively for clamping saidportion of the garment between the inner side of said member and the middle portion of the bail.

MILDRED G. COOK. 

